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'Happy Endings' Preview: 5 Things To Expect From Tonight’s Perfect Episode

By:
Leanne Aguilera
Nov 20, 2012

This is the story of seven six strangers picked to live in a house, and have their lives taped. To find out what happens when people stop being polite and start being amahzing. The Real World: Happy Endings!
Start hyperventilating with excitement you guys because tonight’s all-new Thanksgiving episode of Happy Endings is giving us something we’ve been craving for three seasons: how the gang all met! And believe us when we say it’s more awesome than we could’ve ever dreamed of. Back in September we caught up with the cast on set and they spilled all the glorious details on what makes this episode so perfect. To help get you a excited as we are (a nearly impossible task), we’ve compiled a list of the top 5 things you need to know about “More like Stanksgiving.”
1. The Real World: Sacramento! Fun-fact: Did you know that there was a season of The Real World set in Sacramento that never aired? Oh yes and it had all the classic characters: the seemingly normal one, the skanky girl, the hot guy, the shy/borderline psychotic girl, the obnoxious one, the wannabe with the faux-hawk, and the douche with dreads. Wait, hold up? We recognize those last two! It turns out Max (Adam Pally) and Brad (Damon Wayans Jr.) were roomies on the on the once beloved MTV reality show and the gang all met when Max invited his friends over for some drinks and a little hot tub sesh. Classic.
2. Secrets and Sandwiches: Max is beyond excited to share this long-lost footage with his friends for one very important reason: He came out of his very obvious closet onscreen! Pally explained, “Max believes that he was the first openly gay character on television—even though there were several seasons of The Real World that proceeded him with gay characters.” Pshh, small details. But when the time finally comes for Max to reveal to a roomie (and the world) that he is gay, his love for food—more specifically sandwiches—gets in the way.
3. Kisses on the Nose: We’ve heard glorious bits and pieces about Max and Penny’s (Casey Wilson) past relationship, but this episode shows us exactly what it was like for our favorite duo during their Real World romance. In the confessional Max tries to explains their amazing sex life: “We are like two rabbits just doing it all the time. There’s so much sex and it’s all hetero!“ Awkward. Penny—while rockin’ the ‘Rachel’ haircut and Uggs—has absolutely no idea that her beau likes boys. Wilson laughs, “It’s just so sad to watch.”
4. First Impressions: We all know that Brad and Jane (Eliza Coupe) are perfect together. Their shared love of stanky cheeses, organic farmers markets and month-of-the-month subscriptions are just a few of the millions of reasons that they belong together. But what if we told you that a Gwen Stefani-esque Jane and a Counting Crows-channeling Brad almost never got together? It’s nearly earth-shattering: we know! Luckily, there is always a magical cure to the most annoying of situations. Coupe teases, “Jane gets drunk.” “And that’s kind of how we start,” Wayans chimed in. And this is exactly why God made tequila…
5. 1/16th of a Thanksgiving: Dave (Zach Knighton) and Alex (Elisha Cuthbert) decide to channel their inner Brad and Jane and host the Thanksgiving festivities at their new place. Cuthbert reveals, “[Dave's] stuff hasn’t been moved in and obviously I live on the streets and don’t have anything, so our furniture is really funny.” (Spoiler: There may or may not be a kinky swing involved!) While the gang is reliving their unaired 15 minutes of fame, Dave—back on his 1/16th Native American kick—sets out on a journey that his distant Navajo ancestors would definitely be proud of. (Or maybe they would just laugh at him, because that’s what we did…)
You can catch tonight’s all new episode of Happy Endings tonight at 8 PM on ABC.
Are you excited to see the long-lost season of The Real World? Intrigued to learn what Brad’s first impression of Jane was? Shout out your thoughts in the comments below!
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Guys, we really need to talk about hair. This is a season of messed up crazy locks. First of all, we have Frank with his beehive of curls that was made from the the last remaining sunshine from a dying star and littered with faerie magic so that it would make everyone fall in love with him. Then we have Jen's half-shaved, manic-panicked asymmetrical fail, that looks like a waterfall that is stopped up by a boulder. Don't forget Janelle's impenetrable weave that looks like it comes with its own wind machine and she is forever in a photo shoot where the photographer is saying, "Great, but more t*ts. Give us more t*ts!" There is Shane's thinning faux-hawk that is about three years away from needing to be shaved or hairplugged but three years too late for Propecia. Oh, and let us not forget about Joe, who happens to have a plantinum blonde flavor savor. Yes, the chef has a flavor savor, because it is 1998 and he is in a Ben Affleck movie. Maybe he thinks he is Ben Affleck? Who the hell knows, but if I were in that house, I might slip while I was shaving just so I could hack that unnecessary plumage off his bottom lip.
The hair we really need to talk about, the biggest and baddest of all, is Wig's hair. Just on a normal day, after being blonderized and flat ironed, Wig's hair is an awful sight to behold. It's some kind of Gunner throwback. It's like he has a collection of Winger albums that he just can't get rid of and the hairstyle to match. But it's so much more delicate that that. Wig's hair is lady hair. And while I'm all for being as crazy and flamboyant as you want, the last thing you want to see with a handsome face and square jaw like Wig's is your cousin Suzanne's hairdo from her prom. It's also nefariously versatile. First, there was the front French braid along his bangs that looked like something you would only find in a bad infomercial for the Topsy Tail. Then, during the coach's competition, he was wearing a high side pony (with a headband!) like he was Olivia Newton-John's stand-in in the "Let's Get Physical" video. No matter what he does with it, it looks bad. I would actually vote Wig out just because of his hair. Honestly, I would. But I can't because Janelle saved him in the coach's competition.
So, yes, Shane is HoH and Britney thinks that she is queen bitch, supreme bitch because of it, but little does she know that Shane, her No. 1 player (oopsie, only player), is making devious deals behind her back. First he made a final two deal with his little scratch post Danielle. (She was all, "This is my first final two deal." Lady, this better be your only final two deal or one of the pair of you did something seriously wrong.) Then he's continuing his deal with Frank and Boogie, who are attached at the hip like a pair of Siamese twins. (It doesn't help that they have indistinguishable not-funny T-shirts with messages all over them.) Shane tells Frank he won't put him up, even though both Britney and Danielle are telling him that he should. Everyone knows that Frank, with his bouffant that is made from the strands pulled out of Rapunzel's brush and was kissed by the spirit of Princess Diana after she died, is a huge threat and it's better to get him out of the game. Shane thinks he's a really good player and will take him far. I think that is a stupid strategy, because you want to win this game, so you should go far in the game with people who are kind of sucky so that you can beat them at every turn.
Shane decides that he wants to put Wig up, because everyone thinks he's a huge physical threat even though he saunters around the house in a skank tank and briefs all the time. Anyway, it's time for the coach's competition and they all come out dressed like they're Jamie Lee Curtis in Perfect (seriously, Netflix that one) and it's time to do aerobics to win. Dan decides that he's finally going to not throw a competition and he goes to the final with Janelle, who beats him and saves Wig. This makes sense because Wig really needs saving. He needs saving from himself. Please, Janelle, have a hair-tervention for this poor soul. Seriously.
The other crazy thing is that Britney needed to put two people on slop and Ian volunteered for the third week in a row. His thinking is that if he keeps picking slop then people won't want to vote him out. Ian, who has been clinically diagnosed with a rare psychological disorder known as Bonkers, is totally crazy, but this is a sly strategy. I'm sorry, but I think that Ian can take it all the way. The funny thing is, he doesn't have the backing of his coach. Boogie only has eyes for Frank. Period. When Boogie wins a bunch of cash and has to give it to some people, he would have given it all to Frank if he could, but Frank pointed to the other two of Boogie's players and he gives them some coin. Ian starts to cry (probably because he's been on slop for two weeks and he was having a flare-up of Bonkers), but if only he knew the reason he got some $$$ is because Frank passed, he might not feel so teary-eyed.
So, blah blah blah, Shane nominates Joe's awful flavor savor and Ashley for elimination. Guess waking Shane up from his Carmen Elektra sex dream (does everyone in this house think it is 1998?) with an omelette didn't really help, Joe. Shane's rationale is, "Last week, you put up me and JoJo and I want you to see how it feels." Um, the only problem is no one from Janelle's team put you up, Shane, it was your boy Frank, who you have given a free ride. This is Boogie and Frank's master plan and PS, Shane, as soon as the coaches enter the game (and if you didn't think they would, you're dumber than Ashley on three Vicodins) you are out and Frank is going to take Boogie all the way. Good job on getting them even closer.
What other stupid things do we need to talk about? Oh, Ashley! She has a dream board. She cuts all the things out of magazines that she wants and she puts them on a cork board over her bed. Do you know it got her an iPhone? She put a picture of a iPhone that she saw Kim Kardashian carrying in an issue of Us Weekly and she put it on her board and she dreamed and dreamed that she would get one and one day, while walking down the street, an iPhone just fell out of a cloud and onto the sidewalk in front of her. She picked it up and looked in the contacts under "Dream" and she pushed Dream's phone number and called it and said, "Thanks, Dream, for giving me a phone." Ashley, or Scarecrow, as I'd like to call her, maybe you should put a GED on a the dream board. Just sayin'.
But just as dumb is Danielle. They're all sitting around the back yard and Jen is talking about being into ladies and her coming out story and all that stuff, which is all sweet and nice, and then Danielle is like, "Now that I know Jen, I'm not afraid of lesbians anymore. I always thought they would all hit on me and whatnot, but they don't! So I'm safe. YAY!" Oh please, Danielle. First of all, Jen said that she's really into smart girls, so that means you're not her type. Also, you are about one pair of Birkenstocks and eight Indigo Girl CDs away from any lesbian even thinking that they have a shot with you. Come on. Do you really think that this is the way the world works? I mean, Wig hasn't tried to hit on any of the guys yet and Shane is not only hot, but he looks kinda gay too (I mean, the muscles, the fake tan... ). Do you really think that all gay people are so sexually voracious that they try to hit on every attractive member of the same gender around them? Hell no!
As Zingbot says, "If Danielle thought Jen would want to sleep with her, why aren't they in an alliance? It's her's her body and not her game play that's keeping Shane around." ZING!
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While the mystery behind man's creation is the question that burns at the heart of this week's sci-fi epic Prometheus, the movie's own birth can be traced fairly definitively. Director Ridley Scott had long been mulling over prequelizing his seminal, 1979 space horror Alien, bringing on artists and writer Jon Spaihts half a decade to go to develop a story. But it all finally came together when LOST vet Damon Lindelof came on board to polish the screenplay into Prometheus — a sci-fi in the vein of Alien that stands alone with heady, big picture concepts and terrifying creature mayhem. Touting that combination, it was a no-brainer that Fox would move ahead with the film and let the creative team run wild with their seed of a cinematic idea.
But even with a pedigree comprised of Hollywood's upper echelon — a standard continued to be set by the top-notch cast of Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, and Noomi Rapace — Prometheus is still a risk for the studio. Committing to the hard R-rating the material desperately calls for, Fox boldly steps out this weekend into an arena where few have found blockbuster-sized success. The R rating presents a formidable challenge for a movie, limiting their audience to the 18 and up crowd, a majority who are not the target demographic when it comes to theatrical experiences — especially during the summer. A few days ago, The Avengers became the third highest-grossing movie of all time, thanks to its transcendent ability to become a four-quadrant movie. The kids who frequent the air-conditioned safehavens of movie theaters during the summer trekked out for repeat viewings of the comic book action flick; adults who grew up with the comics finally had an event film; and those who couldn't care less about a group of caped crusaders punching aliens in the faces were dragged along by their excited friends. With an R rating, Prometheus already narrows the field of vision.
Despite the restrictive nature of the MPAA's adult branding, R-rated movies can triumph at the box office. 2012 has seen two films branded with R cross the $100 million mark: the raunchy comedy 21 Jump Street and Denzel Washington's Safe House. 2011 even saw an R-rated movie blow past $200 million, with The Hangover Part II grossing $254.5 million in the states alone. The biggest hurdle for Prometheus may be its sci-fi roots — while R-rated comedies thrive, they naturally appeal to a broader audience and, in general, cost significantly less than a special effects-driven spectacle. The cost of producing Prometheus is anyone's guess, but it's safe to assume that as a summer movie, it has to make summer movie numbers — which, these days, is upwards of $200 million. Very few R-rated, sci-fi movies have been able to cross that event horizon, with 2003's Matrix Reloaded ($281 million) being the most recent. Only two other movies fit as apt comparisons: 1991's Terminator 2: Judgment Day ($204.8 million) and (a bit of a stretch) the 2007's comic book adaptation 300 ($210.6 million). Even franchise revivals that stir up nostalgia don't muster up much business. 2003's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines bowed out at $150.4 million.
The factor that could help Prometheus mission into the great box office unknown is the ship's captain: Ridley Scott. The auteur director has made a career out of R-rated films targeted directly at mature moviegoers. Scott has made five movies in his career that have made over $100 million, four of which were rated R: Gladiator ($187.7 million), Hannibal ($165.1 million), American Gangster ($130.2 million), and Black Hawk Down ($108.6 million). Back when the director was in the genre business, with entries like Alien, Blade Runner and Legend, movies weren't raking in the amounts of money they do today. His return to summer-friendly could provide Prometheus with the draw to overcome the R rating curse, making the film Scott's career best.
Scott, Lindelof and the rest of the Prometheus crew had few bumps in making of their film. There were assumptions that Fox would take the safe road, trim down the movie's violence and secure a PG-13 rating suitable for the masses. Instead, they stuck with the unfiltered imagination of Scott and Co. Will the risk pay off? The movie has already made over $40 million worldwide before its descent
into American box offices and that success could easily translate
stateside. A mega-hit with an R-rating is a rarity, but as evidenced, it may be a void audiences are clamoring to have filled.
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I am going to annihilate whatever "Classic Movie" street cred I may have amassed with this column in one single sentence: I loved Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. Loved it. Adored it. Went back and saw it again. To me it rivals 2001 and Days of Heaven for sheer cinematic bliss. It is a movie that could only be a movie. The images are essential and the plot is irrelevant. The characters on the screen aren't these deeply imagined, richly depicted living and breathing souls -- they're just another shape for extravagant composition. Just like 2001 and Days of Heaven.
For Transformers: Dark of the Moon director Michael Bay has said he's going smaller with this one, and it will be more like a Black Hawk Down kind of experience. I can tell you that's not the case. It’s not the case. It might be a bit more emotionally intimate, with some peskily believable characters, but it’s still Michael Bay. It’s still the guy who in Bat Boys turned a five-second sequence into a ten minute slow motion screamfest. Michael Bay doesn't have small in him. And well he shouldn't. He's the most aggressively visual director of his generation, and if he could use those images he creates to create some beauty below the beauty, he could be a contender.
I know, I know, I'm talking about going deep. But I'm serious. That's what great movies do. Whether you're talking about E.T. or Rambo or The Hangover or The Bicycle Thief, genuinely entertaining movies always have depth to them -- that's the only way to be thoroughly entertaining.
But can you do that with big robots? Best believe.
Look no further than 1951's The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Naturally I'm not talking about the remake with Keanu Reeves -- I'm talking about the classic version. Klaatu barada nikto? One of the most quoted lines in film history? No? Go back and watch Toy Story, it's in there, most likely dropped by Joss Whedon, one of the many great writers who had a hand in Pixar's first movie.
"Klaatu barada nikto" is the phrase the alien Klaatu tells the pretty Earth lady Helen she must repeat to the big robot Gort. Klaatu and Gort arrive in a flying saucer and it gets real obvious real quick that while Klaatu is the one who talks and asks for friendship from the Earthlings and all that, Gort's the one in charge. Seemingly. Klaatu offers his hand in friendship, while Gort atomizes tanks. And when the human race proves itself to be a bunch of shortsighted warmongers (as they always seem to do in movies like this -- a la Transformers) Gort shuts down electricity on the entire planet for thirty minutes.
So it’s more like The Thirty Minutes the Earth Stood Still, but you get the point.
Eventually the deal becomes clear: on Klaatu's planet robots like Gort are in complete control. They were developed by the people, who put all their power in these artificial overlords. Now Klaatu's people live in perfect order. They have no poverty, no war, no famine...and no power. And that’s' the choice he offers the people of Earth. Poverty, war and death or a complete lack of freedom. As soon as Earthlings developed atomic power the robots sent Gort and Klaatu over to make sure they didn't do anything stupid.
So what's the movie about?
We're talking 1951. World War II still fresh. American's feeling the weight of being the most powerful country on the planet. Hope and terror wrapped up all around atomic power. And, of course, the USSR. A country of people who have given up their power, their money, their freedom...for safety. Soviet Russia tested its first nuclear weapon in 1949. That was the year to Cold War crystallized into a battle between two countries that had the ability to annihilate one another completely and take most of the planet with them. The Cold War haunts The Day the Earth Stood Still in way that make it deeper, richer, scarier, and therefore more entertaining.
I'm not saying that every movie needs to be "meaningful" or anything like that. As I said, I love Transformers 2. All I'm saying is that if Michael Bay tried even just a little bit to say something with his pop films, they would be even better. I mean, come on, if you're going to make a movie about fighting cars in the waning days of the age of fossil fuel, it's not like you have far to go.
I'm just sayin'.

Fichtner, driving a Scion tC, finished three seconds ahead of second-placed Ken Gushi, a professional Japanese drift racer, after 10 laps of the Long Beach street course. Actor Michael Trucco was placed third, ahead of Muniz.
Green was eighth but showed he's a winner outright when his sexy wife Megan Fox showed up to support her man.
Following the race, modest Fichtner told reporters he was thrilled by the victory, stating, "I didn't even look in the rearview mirror. I just wanted to drive my car. I know there were many drivers in the pack who could've just as easily come out on top."
Gushi spent the duration of the race battling with Fichtner and Trucco after starting 30 seconds behind the stars - the race's traditional handicap for professional drivers. He scored the fastest lap time.
True Blood star Stephen Moyer was forced to pull out of the race after flipping his car during qualifying laps on Friday (15Apr11).
Other celebrities finishing in the top 10 were: Kim Coates and Daniel Goddard.
A charity auction winner called Jerry Westlund finished 10th, ahead of Megyn Price, wrestler Tito Ortiz, pop star Kevin Jonas and Djimon Hounsou.

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Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge) and Jim Carrey's (The Majestic) new untitled project has been pulled by Universal from its March shooting date, Variety reports. The comedy was to star Carrey as a widower who begins dating, only to be haunted by Kidman, who plays his dead wife. Variety cites Kidman's tight schedule as a reason for the delay; she's currently busy haunting Tom Cruise.
In General
Regis Philbin is keeping his original day job. The beleaguered Who Wants To Be a Millionaire host has declined to headline the syndicated version, even though the prime time gig may disappear. And, yes, that's his final answer.
Forget Mork. Forget Patch Adams. The usually cheerful Robin Williams is developing his dark side, and will play mentally disturbed characters in each of his next three films. Actually, we'd like to forget most of the roles we've seen Williams in. Jumanji, anyone?
Movie fans lined Leicester Square in London to catch a glimpse of favorite son Ewan McGregor and other stars of Black Hawk Down at Britain's premiere of the Ridley Scott flick Thursday night. Meanwhile, down the street, fans of the three-piece suit fans lined the aisles at Harrods.
"Out, out damned spot." Monica Lewinsky--yes, that Monica Lewinsky--was at a press conference Wednesday to promote HBO's documentary Monica in Black and White, set to debut March 3. Lewinsky told reporters the biggest misconception people have of her is "that I sought this celebrity by seducing the president and going to the White House with an agenda." And here we thought she went to the White House to make a big change in our trade policy with China.
NBC has filled its drama production slate for the fall 2002 season, ordering six hour-long dramas--including Kingpin, a drug-syndicate Sopranos--and asking for scripts on three other possible series. In related news, ABC has informed CBS and FOX that it gets first dibs on any shows that NBC doesn't work into its lineup. (That's a joke, folks.)
We didn't think anything could make Emeril look good. But NBC's replacement, the Hank Azaria starrer Imagine, has been squashed after just two episodes, after pulling in the same dismal ratings the ill-conceived cooking show did. Bam! In related news, ABC has optioned both Emeril and Imagine. (That's a joke, too.)
Steven Bing, famous for producing Get Carter and for having dated actress Elizabeth Hurley without knocking her up (or so he says), is now suing England's Daily Mail newspaper for libel. The Daily Mail reported that Bing hired a private dick (oh, now we get it) to dig up dirt on the pregnant Hurley in an attempt to ruin her reputation. We've said it once, and we'll say it again: those goofy British.
The Price Is Right celebrated its 30th anniversary in style: with cops, cops and more cops. An estimated 5,000 people showed up for the gala taping in Las Vegas, though there were only an estimated 900 tickets for public consumption. Which means an estimated 4,100 people got mad. The police made no arrests, but did leave with some nice parting gifts.
It's now known that Lani O'Grady, Mary from Eight Is Enough, passed away last September from "multiple drug intoxication." The L.A. County Coroner said that the two drugs in her system, Vicodin and Prozac, were more than enough. The coroner did not say whether or not her 1994 appearance on Geraldo had anything to do with her demise.
From the world of sitar comes this shocking development: Ravi Shankar's daughter wants to make a name of her own. Anoushka Shankar, 20, understood that having a famous dad meant she "didn't have to work to get an audience," but she admits she's developing her own style. As for a name of her own, we suggest Uma Zeta-Jones.
Phil Collins and his wife have set up a charity for aspiring Swiss athletes and entertainers aged 4 to 16. Collins will be performing Saturday in Geneva to raise funds for said charity. There's been no official release on the "Face Value" of tickets or the dress code or, But Seriously even if it's not "A Hot Night in Paris" we bet "No Jackets" will be "Required." We're also waiting (for 17 years now!) for an explanation of the word "sussudio."
Co-creator of CD technology Philips has blasted the major record labels, which are now producing a "new" type of CD that will prevent buyers from ripping songs into the easily traded MP3 format popularized by Napster. Philips GM Gerry Wirtz stated, "We worry [the labels] don't know what they're doing." That makes an entire planetful of audiophiles who wonder the same thing.

Just when we thought KISS took off their makeup and said goodbye to their fans on their farewell tour, KISS and Make-Up, the autobiography of KISS bassist Gene Simmons, will hit stores on Dec. 11.
"It's the weirdest thing in the world," Simmons told Rolling Stone of the anthology process. "Because when you're moving ahead in life and you take snapshots of where you've been and then someone turns around and says, 'Take the last thirty years and pick six hours of highlights,' the hardest thing is how to figure out what to put in and not what to leave out."
The book begins with Simmons' birth in Israel and details his emigration to America with his mother, as well as his former relationships with Cher, Diana Ross, and current wife, Shannon Tweed. The book will also talk about the formation of KISS and give details of the band's 30-year career.
KISS plans to plug their upcoming release KISS: The Box Set with an in-store appearance at Tower Records from 7 to 9 p.m on Nov. 20 in Hollywood, where guitarist Paul Stanley and Simmons will greet and give autographs to fans. Simmons will also host the Court TV documentary The Secret of Rock 'n' Roll on Dec. 4.
Fleetwood Mac: in the studio without McVie
Fleetwood Mac is back in the studio recording its first album since their tremendous 1997 comeback The Dance. But it wouldn't be Fleetwood Mac without some kind of catch--they'll be without singer/keyboardist Christine McVie, who has retired from the group, Reuters reports. She currently lives in an English castle and prefers to indulge in her passion for cooking. "We're happily a four-piece and are creatively, artistically, handling a new chapter of Fleetwood Mac without Christine, and it's going extremely well," co-founder and drummer Mick Fleetwood told Reuters. The band hopes to tour the U.S. next summer.
New York street corner may be renamed 'Joey Ramone Way'
Six months after punk rocker Joey Ramone died from lymphatic cancer, Manhattan's Lower East Side residents are anxiously waiting for the city's Community Board 3 to approve a proposal to change one of their street names after the former Ramones' front man. Residents have asked to change the corner of East Second Street and Bowery in Manhattan to Joey Ramone Way, Rolling Stone magazine reports. The board will
review the proposal at their next meeting on Nov. 15. "I think he's very important as an example of people who come from the East Village, but he's a New Yorker -- lived there, prospered and developed," CBGB's club owner, Hilly Kristal, told the magazine. "I think he would have been kind of embarrassingly pleased."
Guns N' Roses cancels European tour again
European fans will be upset to know that Guns 'N Roses have canceled their European tour for the second time this year. According to SonicNet.com, a press release by their manager, Doug Goldstein, reported that the group's 14-city tour in June has been put off until December because guitarist Buckethead has internal hemorrhaging in the stomach. The band also claims to want to finish recording their new album, Chinese Democracy. "Following the euphoria of Rock in Rio, I jumped the gun and arranged an European tour as our plan was to have the new album out this year," Goldstein said on a statement. "I am sorry to disappoint fans, but I can assure them that this is not what Axl [Rose] wanted. I made a plan, and unfortunately it did not work out." Goldstein also added that Rose has spent "every waking minute of every day during the last five years writing, recording and producing the record." If the new album ever comes out, it will be G N' R's first original material since 1991.
Ozzy breaks a leg, cancels shows
For years he's called himself a "madman" and acted the part onstage, but age might be starting to catch up with hard-living heavy metal pioneer Ozzy Osbourne. The rocker broke his leg last week when he slipped in the shower before a show in Tucson, Ariz. According to his official Web site, www.ozzy.com, he still performed despite the broken leg for a few dates until his doctor ordered him to rest at home. As a result, 10 dates of his Merry Mayhem tour, with opening act Rob Zombie, have been canceled. The tour will resume on Nov. 29 in Grand Fork, N.D., and end Dec. 29 in San Diego. There is no word yet when the missed dates might be rescheduled.
Jagger to play small party in Los Angeles
Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger performed Nov. 15 at a small party at Los Angeles's El Rey Theatre to celebrate the release of his new solo album Goddess in the Doorway. Jagger performed his upcoming single, "God Gave Me Everything," which he co-wrote with rocker Lenny Kravitz. The performance was taped for ABC's Nov. 22 broadcast, Being Mick, a one-hour documentary directed by Kevin Macdonald. Jagger's latest solo album will hit stores on Nov. 20.
Cure's Robert Smith to release first solo album
Although Robert Smith has been busy promoting the Cure's Greatest Hits album, which went on sale Nov. 13, he hopes to begin recording his first solo album in January or February. "I was just at the point of coordinating it all earlier this year when the Greatest Hits project was suggested, and I went along with it," Smith told SonicNet.com. "And so that took the Cure back into the studio to do all the new songs and the acoustic stuff. And that's followed by promotion, so I had to shelve my album again for another few months." In addition, Smith said that he started coming up for ideas after finishing the Cure's last studio album, Bloodflowers, in 2000. The Cure will also release a Greatest Hits home video on Nov. 27.
Third Eye Blind to headline Los Angeles' free clinic show
Third Eye Blind will headline the third of three benefit concerts for the Silver Lining Silver Lake project benefiting a Los Angeles free health clinic, Launch.com reports. The show, to be held on Nov. 15 at the Hollywood Palladium, will also include Jaguares, Becky, and appearances by Benicio Del Toro and Lucy Liu. The other two concerts will take place on Nov. 13 and 14 at the same venue, and will include performances by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Elton John and Sting. Among the hosts present at the event will be Robert Downey Jr., Christina Ricci, Tony Hawk, and Adam Carolla.
Tickets for the first two nights are currently on sale for $250, $500 and $1000 through Ticketmaster. Tickets for the Nov. 15 show will go on sale on Nov. 17 for $100 a piece. All proceeds will benefit the Hollywood-Sunset Free Clinic, which has offered health care for Los Angeles residents since 1968 and has recently lost its civic funding.

It seems street-smart magician David Blaine's distinctive brand of urban magic--mind reading, sleight of hand and his now famous levitation--caught the attention of quite a few Hollywood hot shots several years ago, including veteran actor Robert De Niro.
Performing his tricks at trendy clubs and restaurants across both coasts, Blaine soon found himself adored by legions of stars--Madonna, Spike Lee, Jack Nicholson, Arnold Schwarzenegger and David Geffen. He captured the heart of singer-songwriter Fiona Apple, though they've since broken up, and more recently he's been attached to Cover Girl model Josie Moran.
Now that's a life of which movies are made, and De Niro took notice.
In 1997 the "goodfella" bought the rights to make a film about Blaine's life, and rumors have circulated that Leonardo DiCaprio--a known associate of Blaine's who also happens to be dating a model, Brazil's finest Gisele Bündchen--would star.
Big names, cool project, magic, guys who date models and rock stars--it has all the makings of a potential Hollywood blockbuster. So Hollywood.com decided to investigate the movie, and the people attached to it, in this first installment of our newest column, Hot Projects.
In with the in crowd
It all started in 1997, when ABC gave Blaine, then 24, his first television special, David Blaine: Street Magic. Here's the connection. DiCaprio hosted it. Blaine became an overnight success (the network later went on to produce three other specials, David Blaine: Magic Man, David Blaine: Buried Alive and David Blaine: Frozen in Time), and the Titanic star and the good looking trickster with grunge appeal became buds.
Before he knew it, Blaine was running around town partying with DiCaprio's posse, which included Tobey Maguire, Lukas Haan and skateboarder Tony Hawk. The posse was known for tearing up the New York club scene and obsessing over--you guessed it--models.
But DiCaprio and Blaine reportedly had a falling out. Some sources blamed it on DiCaprio's bratty behavior and jealousy over the attention Blaine was receiving; others rumored it was over a woman. She was probably a model.
Whatever the reason, suffice it to say DiCaprio will not be starring in the film.
"It is not confirmed," DiCaprio's publicist Ken Sunshine said about the role. "It's a lie."
So that's settled. No word yet on who will play Leo.
The De Niro connection
In addition to owning the rights to the story, it's been said that De Niro will star in the film as a magician who takes Blaine under his wing. While MGM Pictures confirmed that Trick Monkey is on their development list, publicists for De Niro's production company, Tribeca Productions, which develops projects in which De Niro serves as producer, director and/or actor, said they had no information available on the film.
Jim Uhls, whose last project was Fight Club starring Brad Pitt, has already written the screenplay.
No one's talking about who will play Blaine's various love interests.
We can tell De Niro's future
Well, we know this much anyway. We'll see several other De Niro projects before this one ever comes to fruition. In Showtime, about cops who go on a reality TV show to boost the department's image, De Niro stars with Eddie Murphy and Rene Russo. That just wrapped last month. Also wrapped are About a Boy, starring Hugh Grant, Rachel Weisz, Toni Collette and De Niro, and City by the Sea starring De Niro, Frances McDormand and James Franco.
Along with Billy Crystal, De Niro is also currently in talks to reprise his role as Paul Vitti in a sequel to Analyze This, Analyze This Too.
In 2001 Blaine will bring his magic show to Broadway, and Villard Books publish will his first book, Mysterious Stranger this fall.

Synopsis

When Jesse Mach, a Los Angeles Police Department motorcycle cop, is injured and relegated to an office in public relations, he becomes the concern of Norman Tuttle, a federal government engineer who has developed Street Hawk, a highly sophisticated motorcycle designed to battle crime.

Because Mach possesses the abilities needed to operate Street Hawk, Tuttle offers him a chance to regain the use of his leg (via a special operation) in return for his services. The series relates Mach's efforts to battle crime as the mysterious Street Hawk, while pretending to be a crippled public relations officer.